[FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats

[Marcus Daniels]

The real objection seems to be to (not so) good old-fashioned capitalism.   Amazon is just good at it.

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Well, the argument is not mainly that they're too big. It's that they use offensive marketing tactics to *kill* smaller "competitors" ... e.g. diapers.com. You know, good old fashioned capitalism. If they didn't engage in that sort of thing, they wouldn't be villains. The "natural" reduction to the mediocre that happens in monopoly or oligopoly isn't as much of a concern. And their consistent mistreatment of their delivery workers (not their IT workers) is also not the main concern. If, as RussS argues, they were simply more competent, then the "freedom" of the market might be enough to allow a radical idea to disrupt them. But it's not mere competence. Amazon is anti-freedom and predatory.

Besides, this government will not break them up. Amazon is way more powerful than the Trump admin, despite Trump's idiotic personal vendetta.

On 9/14/20 8:47 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote:
> Which, by transitivity must mean animosity toward the 40% of idiot 
> citizens who keep such radical ideas from having a chance in hell of happening.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:38 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I guess I don't get all this animosity toward Amazon.   If it is too big, then use the force of government to break it up.

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